Identity politics

Sign languages emerge through a natural process in deaf communities just as verbal languages do, after a language community is formed, according to a linguist.         

An anti-fascist rally marking six years since the killing of a leftist musician by a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn got underway in the district of Keratsini on Wednesday, headed by the victim's mother, Magda Fyssa.

The march will end at the offices of Golden Dawn in Piraeus.

Agriculture Minister Makis Voridis has rejected allegations of anti-Semitism levelled against him by the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), the umbrella organization of Greek Jews.

According to the government website she pointed out that the work of the Council for National Minorities is a confirmation of the commitment to this topic.

President Klaus Iohannis reaffirms Romania's commitment to fight against anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia, in a message sent on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

Greece and Israel on Wednesday initiated the first bilateral dialog on fighting anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism, amid a spate of vandalisms against Holocaust monuments and Jewish cemeteries across Greece.

Marking the National Minorities Day of Romania represents "a proof of accepting and respecting the other - defined through a distinct ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic identity" and "a proof of the maturity of the Romanian society that understood that dialogue and good coexistence are the pillars of a durable democracy," a release of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) sent to AGERPRES

A reveller is checked by police on his arrival for a Neo-Nazi rock concert in Apolda, eastern Germany on Oct. 6. The event was closed down by the police after the gathering turned into a riot when extreme right wing and Neo-Nazi attendees attacked the police leaving several police officers injured. (Photo by Sebastian Haak / dpa / AFP)

The number of female chief executives at the top 500 U.S. companies hit a high last year of 27 women, according to research that experts said shows a glass ceiling remains firmly in place.

Voters handed Sweden's ruling party its worst-ever election result Sunday and delivered a parallel lift to a far-right party with white supremacist roots, leaving the ideological outline of the Scandinavian country's next government uncertain.